Hon. Abraham Biar, an MP and also a member of the National Constitutional Amendment Committee - Credit: Eye Radio/Moses Awan - January 25, 2023

A national lawmaker has urged citizens to defend their rights using legal means to challenge violations of the interim constitution.

Abraham Biar – who is also a member of the National Constitutional Amendment Committee – says those who criticize the constitution should address their grievances through the court of law.

He was commenting on the National Security Service Act, of 2014 which gives the government apparatus powers to arrest anyone without an arrest warrant.

An arrest warrant is a document issued by an attorney that authorizes police to take someone accused of a crime into custody.

Lawmaker Abraham said the public should pursue their concerns through qualified lawyers in the country.

“People who complain, sometimes we say why are you people who don’t use law offices, the lawyers to challenge if there is something abusing any provision,” Lawyer Biar told Eye Radio.

“Lawyers are there to help you, and the lawyers are sitting idle. People are not using them, because citizens are not coming to them,

“They [citizens] conclude that the national security will not accept, they conclude that the police will not accept [a certain provision in law]. Why do you conclude when you are in your house,

“There is a law, there are lawyers, it is provided in the constitution to protect you and stand up for you.”